retraçant
\ʁə.tʁa.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“retraçant” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,332. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,332
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de retracer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retracant · retraçant · French
retraçant · rank #28,332 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #28,332
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH retouche
Nearest frequency peer: retouche (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « retraçant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ressemblaie…
ressemblaient
71,672 corpus weight
- retombé
retombé
71,671 corpus weight
- retouche
retouche
71,670 corpus weight
- retraçant
retraçant
71,669 corpus weight
- revendiquant
revendiquant
71,668 corpus weight
- roquefort
roquefort
71,667 corpus weight
What this shows « retraçant » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retraçant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.tʁa.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #28,332 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « retraçant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around retraçant (IPA \ʁə.tʁa.sɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #28,332 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent de retracer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for retraçant, with forms such as "ertraçant", "rertaçant", and "retarçant". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "retracent", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is retraçant, spelled R-E-T-R-A-Ç-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de retracer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how retraçant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Guide conférencier attaché à exhumer les pièces retraçant l’histoire de ces demeures incluses dans la soixantaine d’îlots dénombrés, Frédéric Chasseboeuf poursuit ses recherches (notamment à travers les actes notariés) commencées voilà plusieurs années et qui s’inscrivent dans la trame des travaux précurseurs de Monique Moulin, dans les années 1970.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ertraçant
- rertaçant
- retarçant
- retraaçnt
- retracant
- retraçannt
- retraçantt
- retraçatn
- retraçnat
- retrraçant
- retrçaant
- rettraçant
- rretraçant
- rteraçant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of retraçant - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).